Favourite freshwater species

I grew up coarse fishing and I'm going to be doing some more this year.

Bream fishing on the feeder or chub on the river, great sport!

If I had to only fish for one species, I think it would be chub.

Hopefully get together soon and fish a few lakes or rivers.

I also grew up coarse fishing on the Frome at wareham fishing for the roach and dace, i now target the carp and bigger fish.

Floater fishing, forgot that!

Now that is a memory, a lot of freshwater fishing I haven't done for a while like surface fishing. With the weed and fish situation on Chesil at present I may be heading to the lakes to get some fishing time in.

fishdorset wrote:Floater fishing, forgot that!

Now that is a memory, a lot of freshwater fishing I haven't done for a while like surface fishing. With the weed and fish situation on Chesil at present I may be heading to the lakes to get some fishing time in.

and catch a few fish.

jfbee wrote:

fishdorset wrote:Floater fishing, forgot that!

Now that is a memory, a lot of freshwater fishing I haven't done for a while like surface fishing. With the weed and fish situation on Chesil at present I may be heading to the lakes to get some fishing time in.

and catch a few fish.

Sounds like the weed and non fish situation is getting to us!

Good idea to put a course section up john, I still do a bit of course fishing we have a farm near me with two carp lakes and 1 general lake so pop up there every now and then.

i grew up fishing for roach n pike on the summerset levels great fishing up their.my best pike to date is 19lb 8oz caught way back wen i was 14 good times

I love stalking our local River Piddle Grayling, beautiful fish If I had to pick a non-game fish it would be the Barbel. They give a great scrap on a fly

When I was a kid I loved hunting Brown Trout in the stream at the bottom of the garden, and trying for Gudgeon that lived in a cooling pond down at the colliery near my grandma's house.

I still do a lot of fluff chucking, and winter trotting for roach and chub. My club waters are on the Avon, Nadder, Stour and Wyle around Salisbury so i've got a good choice. There is a few lakes owned by the club too but i don't really bother with them, sometimes go for a bit of carp on the fly which is awesome.

Well I only had 2 years of coarse fishing when I was in Liverpool going my studies.. My favourite fish would definately be the Tench!!

My Best catch at GreenBank Park a bagful of tench on the pole with paste as bait.

some cracking tench there Mathew, gotta love those tincas

That's what I like to see, another man on the pole........see I'm not the only one.
Paste is a killer method and is great when the carp or tench have really got there heads down.

Well I used to be on the pole back in the UK.. Now that I'm back in Singapore.. It kinda boring not been able to fish with a seatbox and my trusty 16mtr Pole.. We don't have those type of fishes here.

The pole is a killer method to fish.. Exact bait position.. Excellent Bait presentation if the rig is shot properly..
However the angler himself/herself have to get the fish into the 'mood'!!

My usual practice on matches would to fish the 16mtr out on side... 8trs out in the centre... and the shallows in the last 1hr
Had me winning a couple of matches like that

fishdorset wrote:That's what I like to see, another man on the pole........see I'm not the only one.
Paste is a killer method and is great when the carp or tench have really got there heads down.

pike .chub and eels

Thats a nice haul of fish there Matthew. If only I could regularly gets catches of bass or cod like that.

Thats on a different level... I tried for the longest time for the bass in UK but caught none at all.. Bait and lure..
Cod wise my biggest was about 2lb that's about it from the Mersey River.

Weaver wrote:Thats a nice haul of fish there Matthew. If only I could regularly gets catches of bass or cod like that.

gotta be stalking big chub with freelined slugs in small shallow streams, they go like trains!

Not sure if you guys have seen this on the WFS site but for those that havent i thought i would post it here.
An intresting addition to the list.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/14/teenage-angler-5lb-goldfish-dorset

Yeah, I saw that in Anglers Mail this week, now that would fill the bowl!

Fly fishing for wild brown trout ,,and catching them on a home made pattern on the small rivers in ireland ,,is how i started fishing,,and the bream fishing on the river ban,, like dustbin lids..but sorry to say beach fishing gotta beat it hands down...just the thought of whats it gonna be.

andy36 wrote:Not sure if you guys have seen this on the WFS site but for those that havent i thought i would post it here.
An intresting addition to the list.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/14/teenage-angler-5lb-goldfish-dorset

wow! thats a big ass goldfish! not sure if caught again i would wanna see it in someones fishtank, i think it would most prob die. it has lived so long where it is so no point in moving it.

andy36 wrote:Not sure if you guys have seen this on the WFS site but for those that havent i thought i would post it here.
An intresting addition to the list.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/14/teenage-angler-5lb-goldfish-dorset

I know where it is!!

I've been devoting a little too much time course fishing of late, 6 sessions in the past 8 days, the Stour is only 10 mins away and membership is peanuts. Plugging rod is has now taken up residence in the back of the car ready for an hour in the afternoon between service or a fleeting pikeathon before breakfast....great!!!

I fish the river axe at w-s-m and it can be mental at times last year me and the boy caught over 200 roach, perch and a very decent pike, 200 yards away from was a 13 year old who caught a 33 lb pike.

Fav fresh water species is Roach, My PB is stuck at 2lb 15 1/2oz but taking 100 fish for 6lb on bread on the K&A Beats 150lb of puddle carp any day. (Unless I win the match that is?? )